January 19, 2011
Categories: Natural Disaster, NGOs
Tags: Haiti earthquake, Paul Farmer
1. Jobs are everything. All humans need money — they need it to buy food and water every day. And no matter how hard the government or the aid industry tries, people will want for all three things until they are employed. The world pledged some $10.2 billion in recovery aid to Haiti after Jan. …
December 13, 2010
Categories: Haiti, Infrastructure, Medicine and Health, Natural Disaster, NGOs
Georgianne Nienaber: New Haiti Cholera Warning, Vaccine Questions, and “Squatters” Vulnerable: “ While all eyes were on Sarah Palin’s visit to Haiti this weekend, Dr. Jocelyne Pierre Louis, Director of Haiti’s Department of Public Health and Population (MSPP) predicted a new outbreak of the cholera epidemic, particularly in Port-au-Prince and the Metropolitan Region due to …
December 13, 2010
Categories: Medicine and Health, NGOs, United States
Tags: cholera, Franklin Graham, Samaritan's Purse, Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin visits crisis-hit Haiti: Sarah Palin says residents of refugee camp ‘are so full of joy’, during visit tightly stage-managed by Christian relief group. Earthquake. Cholera. Political strife. And now Sarah Palin. The former US vice-presidential candidate is visiting Haiti’s refugee camps on a mission variously described as bringing great comfort to the people …
November 24, 2010
Tags: tourism
Rory Carroll: Save Haiti from aid tourists: There was so much goodness packed on to the plane there was almost no room for me. I had a boarding pass but by the time I got to the gate every seat was filled. This was American Airlines flight 575 from Miami to Port-au-Prince and the passengers …
November 24, 2010
Categories: NGOs
Tags: orphans, Saint-Louis du Nord, Uncategorized, Yvette Cabrera
Yvette Cabrera: Fullerton woman helps Haiti’s neediest orphans: The town of Saint-Louis du Nord in Northwest Haiti isn’t the easiest place to get to. My journey there, from Port-au-Prince, included a 45-minute flight on a tiny plane, a landing on a dirt air strip shared by produce-toting donkeys, and an eight-mile, 50-plus minute truck ride. …
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